ONE day, Sri Krishna, while going in a chariot along with Arjuna, looked up to the sky and said, “Behold! What a nice flight of pigeons there!” Arjuna at once turned his eyes in that direction and exclaimed, “Really, friend, very beautiful pigeons indeed!” But the very next moment Sri Krishna looked again and said, “No, friend, they are not pigeons, it seems.” Arjuna, too, saw again and said, “True, they are not pigeons.”
Now try to understand the meaning of this. A great adherent to truth that Arjuna was, he did not possibly assent to whatever Sri Krishna said, simply for flattering him. But he had such an unflinching faith in Sri Krishna that he perceived at once actually whatever Sri Krishna said. (67)